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employee benefits & executive compensation

As a Paul, Weiss employee benefits and executive compensation lawyer, you'll have the opportunity to play a key role in a variety of high-profile matters. From hostile takeovers to friendly business combinations to designing cutting-edge executive incentive arrangements, our lawyers provide specialty counsel to our firm's prestigious clientele and to Paul, Weiss's other top-flight departments.

When you join our group, you'll play a pivotal role in the firm's transactional practice. You'll work on executive employment issues related to public and private M&A, investment fund formation, financings, and securities offerings. You'll provide important support to the firm’s bankruptcy and restructuring practice by evaluating legal exposure for golden parachute severance arrangements and significant pension liabilities. And you'll also support the firm's thriving ERISA litigation practice, including class action defense and investigations by the Department of Labor.

By tackling these challenges, you will develop a diverse knowledge of securities, tax and employment laws, accounting standards and actuarial applications. This important practice will give you the opportunity to collaborate with a talented team in a fast-paced environment.

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Erin Murphy
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Counsel


I enjoy working in the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group because my work deals with the immediate concerns of individual people: an executive’s salary, her bonus, her equity stake or the compensation of large groups of employees. And so I really connect with my work and its immediate, tangible importance. There’s a personal aspect to it.

Employee benefits and executive compensation issues are all over the front pages of The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Major reforms in the law are happening all the time, and these changes really make our work challenging and exciting.

I play a critical role in a diverse array of transactions, which makes my work fresh and interesting. Even though employee benefits is a highly specialized practice that demands a highly technical mastery of tax law, my field as a whole touches on many different aspects of the firm's endeavors: tax law, pension law, securities law and corporate law. There's just an amazing variety of work: anything from very complicated transactions for industry giants like Time Warner Cable all the way down to developing benefits programs for small entrepreneurial clients. I'm often working on matters for 10 different clients in a single day. Our clients depend on me to understand and navigate the compensation and benefits aspects of their transactions and businesses. They seek me out and rely on my expertise.